There's a new love for your enjoyment. I opted to go against 2.6.3_rc3 again since there's no mm out for 2.6.3_rc4. I have added a cool cflags selection patch from bssteph, the latest evms support, aureal-vortex sound cards, and a fancy boot logo. As usual it can be found here: http://www.linuxmall.us/~lovepatch/love-sources

The broken-out.tar.bz2 file is the current broken-out directory. Use at your own risk, not all patches apply or unapply cleanly. I also put the patch for nforce2 boards on the site, rather than include it in the release. I'm not sure if it will break the nforce2 boards that work. So if you need it, it's there._________________Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

I just noticed the nforce2 patch doesn't actually compile. I'm still working on a solution and will keep you informed._________________Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

I need to sleep real bad. That nforce patch is already included, enjoy!_________________Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

have you guys ever heard abba?
I read some really strange lyrics from one of their songs....

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so I say thank you for the love-sources,
for bringing it to meeeeeeeeeee

isn't that strange?

Creepy. Remind me never to walk alone at night._________________Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

/me hums "the freaks come out at night .... the freaks come out at night!" (please tell me someone else knows this song )

Great job on another new release. My problem from love1 still stands however (tbh, I wasn't really expecting it to be solved with the given changelog ):

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These sources look great - haven't updated since 2.6.1-love5 because I've been insanely busy. However, something's changed since then (I'm willing to bet its the new cfq, unless I messed up my kernel config) - while my kernel boots, it hangs at the same spot. It says:

I've tried this with my crazy cflags, then removed them, thinking that was the cause of the issue. Unfortunately, it was not. The ide chipset I selected was the VIA one, which has always worked in the past.

Today (only had about 30 mins), I tried to isolate the error, trying a variety of different options. What I've found was that cfq is not the problem - the noop i/o scheduler gives me the same crash in the same spot. Tomorrow if I have time, I plan on trying mm-sources to see if the crash is love-specific, and if it crashes with mm too, then vanilla-sources to see if the crash is from an mm patch or from the actual kernel upgrade (currently using 2.6.1-lvoe5).

If anyone has time (I saw a few othe rpeople with the same problem in the previous thread), what results do you get performing the tests I listed? Hopefully once the patchset that causes the bug is isolated, the individual patch that causes the problem can then be isolated, and the error fixed or a bug sent upstream.

EDIT: 2.6.3 final and mm1 released
Didn't have time to fully look at changelog but saw this really quickly:
"[PATCH] fix too early probing of default IDE ports

It was broken by IDE modular fixes in 2.6.2."

No idea if that's the problem I was experiencing or not, but it might be.

do you think that this could be the shortest lived release ever for love-sources? Presuming that steel plans to release a patch based on 2.6.3-final within the next few hours, i'm going to skip doing an evil-sources release based on this patch and wait until 2.6.3-love1 comes out, no rushes btw._________________This post has been over explained for newb-informing purposes.

Hmm.. this 2.6.3-rc3 series of kernels doesn't really seem to be liking me.
Both love1 and love2 lock up without any apparent reason. No oops, no "cannot load module," no nothing. Just a hard freeze.

The only thing I can really say is that it seems to be locking up during the first time it tries to detect (or whatever it does) my floppy drive. There are literally maybe 15 lines on my output kernel log before the thing locks up, so it's rather quick about it.

FWIW, here's my config.
Same config used for both love1 and love2. The only difference is the 8139too was changed from builtin to a module.
It's basically the same config I've used since I reinstalled gentoo a month or two ago.

Initially I thought it might have had something to do with my nic driver (8139too) because that seems to be the next step the kernel takes after the flopping drive thing in my working kernels. So after love1 wouldn't compile, I tried compiling 8139too as a module. Still does the same thing.

I also have the framebuffer enabled
not sure what else may be relevant

Also, on a less serious note, I've been wondering if people felt the Piggens scheduler was a little less responsive after 2.6.1-love2? While I was compiling 2.6.3-rc3-love2 not too long ago, I was also running gdesklets, epiphany and mplayer playing back a MPEG4 video.. all without any noticeable burps in anything while I was browsing the web. I've tried a few in the 2.6.2 series (just rc1-love1 and rc3-love1, admittedly) and it's MUCH worse in its quickness to adapt. There's a noticeable delay in scrolling and other widget response and if I do any real amount of scrolling, the video will skip.

FWIW, there was a point in time when the scheduler was recommended to be niced to a -10 value because that makes things a little bit easier to predict. Is this still needed/wanted? I guess I'm not search savvy enough for lkml to be of much use to me. -_- But with or without nice the result seems to be about the same.

I probably shouldn't get to mucking around in kernels too much at 4:30 in the morning, but I'll probably try out the "vanilla" mm-sources to see if the lockups persist. Just thought I'd chime in just in case someone might have an idea.

But regardless of possible regressions, I guess that's what makes love-sources fun.

Why can't mm release while I'm awake. Every time I go to bed, Andrew releases an new one. Well, off ot building the new love._________________Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

Hi steel300,
I found a bug in my patch:
If you compile alsa only with a vortex card enabled, you get unknown symbols.
You could enable another sound card to fix this problem.
I made a patch, and I hope you will include it in the "2.6.3-love*" series _________________0100100100100000011011000110111101110110
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I also get frozen when it detects the floppy drive. The line before it is the cfq scheduler.. but I think it's the floppy drive. Ironically, I don't even have a floppy drive attached to my box nor do I have the floppy driver compiled into the kernel or as a module, so I don't know why it would detect a floppy drive at all. Problem persists even when the module is compiled (included in the kernel or not) and the floppy is attached. (This is with both the most recent love and evil sources.)